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Russian Formalism & Eastern and Central European Literary Theory: A Centenary View
Conference venue: Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
Period: May 15, 2015
- University of Sheffield
Description
The conference marks the centenary of Russian Formalism, commemorating the publication of Victor Shklovsky’s “The Resurrection of the Word” (Voskreshenie slova, 1914), which was not only a milestone in the emergence of Formalism, but arguably also the beginning of the whole project of literary theory. However, in contrast to some other similar endeavors, this interdisciplinary conference focuses on the multinational and multicultural nature of Russian Formalism, and its interactions with/transformations into/influences upon the Prague Linguistic School, Polish Formalism, the Czech and Slovak forms of structuralism, as well as its subsequent Hungarian reconsiderations.
In this context, the interrelationship between constructions of national and intercultural identities, between expert knowledge in one subject and transmutations of this knowledge into an interdisciplinary enterprise are not just abstract categories, but specific aspects of cultural practices. Shared, contested, disputed and migrating intellectual movements of this kind form an integral part of Eastern and Central European cultural memory — no history of the region, no modern history of ideas can be complete without it.
Topics for discussion will include the emergence of Russian Formalism with reference to the general intellectual context of the time; the migration of the theory beyond the borders of Russia and its integration and involvement into the dialogue with, local intellectual circles of Eastern and Central Europe; subsequent transformations of Russian Formalism into what later became the basis for structuralist theory in the humanities and social sciences, and for literary theory in general.
Participants list
- Evgeny Dobrenko (University of Sheffield)
- Tamas Scheibner (Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest)
- Natalia Skradol (University of Sheffield)
- Jan Levchenko (National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Russia)
- Zoran Milutinovic (University College London, UK)
- Patrick Sériot (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Ilya Kalinin (Smolny College, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
- Petr A. Bílek (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Tomáš Glanc (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
- Evgeny Ponomarev (Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russia)
- Sergei Zenkin (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
- Tomáš Hoskovec (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
- Loreta Mačianskaite (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius University)
- Dalia Satkauskyte (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius University)
- Bohumil Fořt (Institute for Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
- Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
- Hans Günther (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
- Alexander Dmitriev (National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Russia)
- Josip Užarević (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Robert Gáfrik (Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
- Mihhail Lotman (University of Tartu, Estonia)
- Andrzej Karcz (Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
- Dušan Radunović (University of Durham, UK)
- Marci Shore (Yale University, USA)
- Ondřej Sládek (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno)
- Peter Steiner (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Aage Hansen-Löve (University of Munich, Germany)
- Tomáš Kubíček (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)
- Igor Pilshchikov (Moscow State University, Russia / Tallin University, Estonia)
Guidelines for participating
No registration is required for attending the conference, and there is no entry fee. More information on there conference are available here.
Organizer
- Evgeny Dobrenko
- Tamas Scheibner
- Natalia Skradol
Information & contacts
Evgeny Dobrenko
e-mail:e.dobrenko@sheffield.ac.uk
Tamas Scheibner
e-mail: scheibner.tamas@btk.elte.hu
Natalia Skradol
e-mail: n.skradol@sheffield.ac.uk
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